• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (Persian: احمد بن محمد ابن فقيه همدانی) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian historian and geographer, famous...
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    La Yahduruhu al-Faqih (مَنْ لَا یَحْضُرُهُ ٱلْفَقِیهُ), forms part of The Four Books of the Shia Hadith collection. The patronymic, Ibn Babawayh indicates...
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  • Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan (or Ibn Foszlan...
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  • al-Jahiz (d. 869), who introduced the "science of countries", and Ibn al-Faqih (fl. 902), al-Maqdisi "surpassed" both "all to the advantage of what certainly...
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  • (1959), "Ibn Battutah's Andalusian Journey", The Geographical Journal. al-Bakri (c. 1048). المسالك والممالك (al-Masalik wa al-Mamlik). Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadānī...
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    Bayt al-Faqīh or Beit al-Faqih (archaic Betelfaguy; Arabic: بيت الفـــقية Bayt al-Faqīh, 'House of the Jurist') is a city in Al Hudaydah Governorate in...
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    Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih. In antiquity, the term "Arabia" encompassed a larger area than the current...
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    Man lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh (Arabic: مَنْ لَا يَحْضُرُه ٱلْفَقِيه, lit. 'He Who has no Jurisprudent' with Him) is a Hadith collection by the famous Twelver...
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    ibn ʿAlī Bā ʿAlawī (Arabic: محمد بن علي باعلوي) commonly known as al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam (Arabic: الفقيه المقدم), Arabic pronunciation: [muˈħammɑd al-faˈqiːh...
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    according to the Persian and Kurdish chroniclers Ibn al-Faqih and Abu al-Fida, was named Balanjar ibn Yafith. In the 630s Balanjar was a capital of the...
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